CNN reports there is a clear pattern of the military services systematically reacting to female service members who report rapes by diagnosing them with psychiatric disorders and involuntarily discharging them.

It’s the same song each year with these DUMMOCRAPTS. Ya know, it’s a fact Republicans donate more to charity than DUMMOCRAPTS; even rich DUMMOCRATS. The Salvation Army already proved that comparing everyday giving in Sioux City vs. San Francisco. The rich DUMMOCRAPTS would rather hold rich fund raisers for Obummer while ignoring the 99%. DUMMOCRAPTS are always complaing about the rich and religious organizations, but those same groups are the ones who help the poor more than the “spend-crazed” lib progressives who want to steal our money through “redistribution of wealth” so they can spend it unwisely.

There’s a news report of some of the Secret Service guys having some hookers while they’re on the road with Obama. This is not newsworthy: guys have been having hookers on the road for thousands of years. Why do you think the call prostitution “the world’s oldest profession?” Duh!

Having the bills all in one place painted a certain picture. “If it’s voter ID, it’s ALEC,” says Doug Clopp, deputy director of programs at Common Cause. “If it’s anti-immigration bills written hand-in-glove with private prison corporations, it’s ALEC.If it’s working with the N.R.A. on ‘Shoot to Kill’ laws, it’s ALEC. When you start peeling back state efforts to opt out of the regional greenhouse gas initiative, it’s ALEC.” Adopted in the states, by the time these laws bubble up to the national level, they’re conventional wisdom.

Before you all go off on Ann Rmoney, you should really understand how very hard life was to her

“They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income.

“It was tiny. And I didn’t have money to carpet the floor. But you can get remnants, samples, so I glued them together, all different colors. It looked awful, but it was carpeting.

“We were happy, studying hard. Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

“The stock came from Mitt’s father. When he took over American Motors, the stock was worth nothing. But he invested Mitt’s birthday money year to year — it wasn’t much, a few thousand, but he put it into American Motors because he believed in himself. Five years later, stock that had been $6 a share was $96 and Mitt cashed it so we could live and pay for education.

“Mitt and I walked to class together, shared housekeeping, had a lot of pasta and tuna fish and learned hard lessons.

Imagine the difficulty of not working, living off of the investment income of your husband that his dad gave him, and eating pasta and tuna.
Have you no sympathy!?!

NRA mouthpiece Wayne LaPierre doesn’t like the media’s editorial judgment, either. He’s criticizing the media’s coverage of the vigilante killing of an innocent Florida teenager. He doesn’t see why that’s news when people are getting shot every day all over America.

Of course, the media covers those incidents, too — otherwise how could I post links to the Mass Shooting Of The Day (TM) here?

Roger Rabbit Commentary: Personally, I think it’s news when a group like the NRA goes around trying to change laws so any bozo can carry a gun anywhere and shoot anyone on mere paranoia, because that affects all of us — in fact, I’d argue the NRA’s legislative policies pose a clear and present danger to my own life, and the lives of my fellow rabbits! Especially if George Zimmerman is their idea of a responsible gun owner.

“The stock came from Mitt’s father. When he took over American Motors, the stock was worth nothing. But he invested Mitt’s birthday money year to year — it wasn’t much, a few thousand, but he put it into American Motors because he believed in himself. Five years later, stock that had been $6 a share was $96 and Mitt cashed it so we could live and pay for education.

So he took his own stock money to pay for THEIR education. Apparently most libs on this board don’t believe in themselves or the American dream, hence the disgusting displays of self-aggrandizement here!

BTW Mitt graduated where in his HARVARD class? Oh wait… libs want everything handed to them! Just look at the commentary from many over the years.

Roger it is funny how little DUMMOCRAPTS give to charity! Glad you see the comedy in it. I guess they like having the 99%ers around. Gotta have someone to do their “Dirty Work” for them!

And it is funny that a homosexual sexual harassment suit was settled in the state where DUMMOCRAPTS will “celebrate” their re-coronation of “the messiah” this summer. I guess it’s standard operating procedure when you are a DUMMCORAPT!

And I guess it’s funny when we see Hilary Rosen was part and parcel in the Sandra Fluke “episode”. Yeah Sandra complains about people in law school not affording $9 a month birth control while she spends her summer in Spain and Pompeii!

Conservatives, in contrast, tend to be less open — less exploratory, less in need of change — and more “conscientious,” a trait that indicates they appreciate order and structure in their lives. This gels nicely with the standard definition of conservatism as resistance to change — in the famous words of William F. Buckley Jr., a desire to stand “athwart history, yelling ‘Stop!’ ”

@24 I didn’t have any stock in my student days, so I worked my way through college washing dishes and sweeping floors, and earned my way through law school in a place called Vietnam, where the only thing I slept with was rats, roaches, and an M-16.

One answer is that the governor is widely assumed to have national ambitions, and the Republican base hates government spending in general (unless it’s on weapons). And it hates public transportation in particular. Indeed, three other Republican governors — in Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin — have also canceled public transportation projects supported by federal funds….

America used to be a country that thought big about the future. Major public projects, from the Erie Canal to the interstate highway system, used to be a well-understood component of our national greatness. Nowadays, however, the only big projects politicians are willing to undertake — with expense no object — seem to be wars. Funny how that works.

@29 Most libs on this board didn’t have CEO daddies, or get stock handed to them, or start out in life with a famous name and family connections, numbskull. If you think Mitt Romney worked his way up in life, you’re even dumber than we previously believed.

Oh, he’s dumber. Almost dumber than that yd nitwit. I would love to see just ONE cognizant “conservative” come in here or into any other forum I go to. I have yet to see any self-identified TeaBagger actually have an inkling of anything besides their own selfishness and willful disregard for factual information. They are probably the most uneducated people around.

There is no word in the English language that adequately describes their total lack of awareness of even basic realities. You hold the shit up to their faces, and they’ll scream “Communism” or something, not even seeing what has been so easily demonstrated and proven beyond any shadow of a doubt, except for the religionists who would love to see the entire country look like Mississippi or a Christian version of Saudi Arabia.

Fuck them and their phony bullshit “faith based government”. Goddamn fascists.

When I graduated university my starting salary was 3x what my mother made in a factory. She saved her pennies and had stock in my name along with my little brother. She was no CEO except in our house. Dad was the chairman. I guess it sucked to be you!

It’s the largest embezzlement case in U.S. election history. Federal prosecutors are expected to recommend that Durkee be sentenced to between 11 and 14 years in prison. In addition to the embezzlement, Durkee’s also expected to plead guilty to at least five counts of fraud.

@50 (continued) Okay, puddywatt, I have a question. Who are you calling “moron” and what did the “HA morons” miss? Other than the fact we libs aren’t regular readers of Birch Society propaganda?

Btw, the guy who wrote that article is an economic illiterate, and so are you. Want to know how idiotic Congressman Ron Paul is? He, Congressman Paul, is blaming the Congress’ deficit spending on the Federal Reserve! Yes, that’s right, Congressman Paul believes it’s the Federal Reserve’s fault that a Republican Congress and a Republican President borrowed trillions to give tax breaks to billionaires and pay for a war they started against the wrong country!

The words are from Bernanke… Another fact lost on your old self. You always attack the carrier instead of thinking about the message. Still the same old useless wabbit. Remember Bernanke works with the current administration. Seems Obummer liked him so much he kept him. Another argumentum ad nauseum fayle by the wabbit.

The election embezzlement scan forces Wabbit to change the subject. So typical.

At least Paul Ryan is attempting to create a budget. Obummer’s last attempt was rejected 414 – 0 and Scary Reid hasn’t produced a Senate budget in 1075+ days.

BTW how is Mrs Wabbit? She still using the iron frying pan against yo head?

Romney is a pathological compulsive liar. Lie after lie papered over with more lies. Doesn’t even flinch when caught in bald faced lies, simply tells another big whopper to cover up or dodge the issue. Funny thing, the man actually seems to believe his own latest lies and simply ignores the glaring record of his past actions/lies.

He cannot lie his way out of his decades long record of support for abortion, Roe v Wade, planned parenthood, gay rights, gun control, global warming, amnesty, liberal judges, big government, compulsory or socialized health care (RomneyCommieCare), mandates, Keynesian economics, support and approval of TARP, bailouts, stimulus packages, i.e, every damn liberal progressive issue that comes down the pike.

*(I’m not sure what’s up with Alaska – I’m surprised to see it there, but that’s the list I found)

Let’s keep going, this is fun!

secure communities

Here’s data from the US Census on Burglaries (and other nefarious deeds). Check out file 308, statistics by state. Let’s look at burglary rates as a surrogate for puddle’s gauzy term ‘secure communities):

*(These states ‘stress’ abstinence and not contraception teaching in high school, per Guttmacher Institute)

I’ll stop there – this is WAY too long already. The point being, the statistics above give a glimpse into the quality of life in various conservative/religious/Republican utopias like Alabama and Louisiana and South Carolina, and finds them lacking.

Hey puddles, as a young earth creationist and believer in a 6000-year old universe, which era were you born in – using this handy-dandy chart that compresses the scientific understanding of geologic timeframes into your whack-a-doodle ideas?

I love the implications of this:

King Henry VIII of England was the last English monarch of the Devonian period.

and…

The last dinosaurs died in March 1927, less than a month after Werner Heisenberg formulated his Uncertainty Principle. It is not certain as to whether these events are related.

“This is a different world than it was in the 1960s when I was growing up, when you used to have Mom at home and Dad at work” “Now Mom and Dad both have to work whether they want to or not, and usually one of them has two jobs.“

There he goes again… Lets see. All I need to do is provide some easy facts to refute this moron! He loves to use state data which includes all the DUMMOCRAPTIC cities. Yep DUMMOCRAPTIC cities. For instance… look at the 2008 Texas county presidential voting map. View the counties that voted OBUMMER. Then visit their crime rates. ASTRONOMICAL! Lib Moron did this before and I KABLAMMMMMO’d him outta here! Time to do it again!

So shall we look at birth rates in those states in the cities vs the countryside? Shocking CDC Data! So many PDF Files!

The highest divorce rates were found in Nevada are in Reno and Las Vegas. Data? I used the Lib Morons data! Who is their senator? Scary Reid. And in those cities, who did they vote for? OBUMMER! Or visit the Beast!

Lib is still a moron! Can you see lib moron’s head exploding? Crater Lake eh?

@73 puddles,
Might want to check your US Constitution. Nevada has 2 US Senators. One is a Democrat and one is a Republican. (For extra credit, can you name the party of the Nevada US Senator who resigned under the cloud of a sex related corruption scandal?)
Nevada also boasts a Republican Governor.

@78 puddles,
While you writing Rmoney about Jesus, you may want to understand why his ancestors proselytized “The story of the life of the Mexican divinity, Quetzalcoatl, closely resembles that of the Savior; so closely, indeed, that we can come to no other conclusion than that Quetzalcoatl and Christ are the same being. But the history of the former has been handed down to us through an impure Lamanitish source.”

Well, unless you believe the flying serpent was Jesus appearing in the clouds of His Father’s Glory.

Well, when He arrives, I’m sure He’ll be happy that some of us used our wonderful brains to discover cool stuff, like this:

Ash and charred bone, the earliest known evidence of controlled use of fire, reveal that human ancestors may have used fire a million years ago, a discovery that researchers say will shed light on this major turning point in human evolution.

Scientists analyzed material from Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, a massive cavern located near the edge of the Kalahari Desert. Previous excavations there had uncovered an extensive record of human occupation.

I’ll bet that JAYZUS (J-Z?) will be down with the Theory of Evolution as the foundation for biology, or the cool cool stuff that the Hubble scope showed us about the Universe and its approximately 13-Billion year old age, and the BIG BANG, and Inflation and the LHC and the Higgs Boson.

See? Liberals like to learn things, and use critical thinking, and spend resources on education and research. Whether or not JAYZUS exists or not, or whether He’s coming again (Again? What’s his refractory period?) is immaterial and irrelevant.

There’s no way around that. I just went to the trouble of reading his links @73:

neighborhoodscout.com – unclear what their data is, how it’s analyzed, etc. He lists a page with dangerous cities. No clear point regarding…anything.

FBI.gov – reliable source, unclear point, again. The page linked is the Uniform Crime report, but it is not at all clear what he’s trying to argue. He has again just posted a link embedded in a bunch of blather.

answers.com – Really? answers.com is your authoritative reference? The link puddles provides is to a search for “what city has the highest abortion rate?”
New York is the answer, but what is the point? If anything this says that there needs to be more access to birth control (see rates of teen pregnancy above, particularly in the Bible Belt). It also implies that women in NYC have access to health care option. That’s a good thing, right?

google.com – puddles links to a raw google search of “highest abortion rate cities in us”
Again, point? Even if he were making a point, a page of google links does not make a supporting reference warranting a link, or the implication of backing that a link (should) imply.

The second to last link is to a search of the CDC site for “Mississippi cities teen birth rate 2009” and is a page of links to CDC data. There are no specific data to which the reader is directed – it’s a sham. It has the form of a supported argument, without the substance.

The last link is to that statistical powerhouse, The Daily Beast, to a story titled “America’s 50 Divorce Capitals” Powerful, really powerful.
The first three cities, for what it’s worth (likely not much) are in Florida, Arizona and West Virginia.
OOOH Boy, he schooled me!

Like I said, puddles is a liar. He is not serious, he is not intelligent, he is not honest. He bangs the Bible and lies through his teeth (at least that is consistent). This site is far far better without him.

@15 Maybe the newsworthy aspect of it is they were carousing when they were supposed to be guarding the President against whoever planted those four bombs?

No, they weren’t carousing at the expense of guarding the prez. There are some military guys also being investigated for naughtiness on the road. This is “news” because the talking heads at the TV news centers haven’t got much to talk about these days.

P.S., I wonder how many of those carousing Secret Service agents are Bush holdovers?

Unable to determine, but surely the Secret Service wouldn’t send a bunch of rookie agents to guard the prez in a foreign country. So, there are some Secret Service agents on this particular detail that worked for the SS when Bush was prez. I know they’re government employees, but they’re probably competant enough in this endeavor.

How does “getting a little on the side” affect world politics? This episode is about as newsworthy as how fast the grass is growing at the local park.

@85
I do that every once in a while, just to bolster my argument that he is full of shit.

The bigger problem with puddles isn’t the insane wingerism/YEC/Teahaddism, it’s the know-nothingism. He runs amok and poses as someone with something to say, but when you call him on it – he comes up empty every time.

The most galling thing, I find, though, is the dishonesty. He does this – posts all sorts of links that if you didn’t know better and trust him, look like he has some backing for his positions. But every time I’ve followed his posturing – it’s the same – EMPTY.

It’s dishonest – regardless of his political viewpoint – he’s a liar, and that supersedes all the rest.

“I was in oil and gas,” Shortey said. “I was out on a lease at one time and I got attacked by a turkey. Wait until you get attacked by a turkey. You will know the fear that a turkey can invoke in a person. And so I beat it with a club. That was all I could do.

“I wish that I had a gun with me,” he said. “And I started carrying a gun in my truck after that without a license because I didn’t want to get attacked by a mountain lion. Turkeys are bad enough.”

So I went to my Democratic precinct caucus this afternoon.
Alas, there was pretty poor participation, but I had a lovely conversation with two of my neighbors – two wonderful women, both staunchly pro-choice former Catholics, mad as hell at Cardinal Dolan and the rest of the pedophile-enabling, Republican-mouthpiece Conference of Catholic Bishops.
There was also a clear-eyed rejection of the Ann Rmoney as martyr ploy. The consensus was, rightly I think, good for her – but every other mother in this country deserves the same options with regard to career or staying home – and her defense of Mitt is a defense of the shredding of the safety net and the general social compact in this nation.

No complacency about Mitt, these ladies were mad as hell there weren’t as many people there at 2008 (when, as PCO, I nearly had to adjudicate fist-fights between the Hillary and the Barack factions) – but given the lack of contest, and the nice weather, I don’t think it’s a big deal.

@100
That’s the point.
Certainly formal Catholic teaching on poverty and the death penalty and war is completely congruent with my morals – what the ACCB emphasizes, however, is political fights with Obama specifically, and Democrats more generally.
They went after Kerry and tried to undermine him, as well.

Were they in the forefront of opposing the corrosive policies of Bush, which degraded the lives and dignity of millions? Cost hundreds of thousands of innocents their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere? Nary a peep.

No, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church is a pack of repressive and repressed old men who are perfectly willing to stoke the fires of fetus fetishism, and who have fairly clearly outed themselves as the Fox News of religiosity.

(As Bill Maher said, to paraphrase, “Why would we listen to a bunch of old virgin men who go to work in dresses on the topic of contraception?”)

Just a reminder that Puddy couldn’t be bothered to dissaprove of his compatriots who responded to a killing by the equivilent of a local skinhead by calling the teenage victims “Hilter Youth”. He kept saying he already replied, but nobody could seem to find it.

@110, 111 – It’s not necessary to guess, because this was in a news story. These people are expats who work and pay taxes abroad. The U.S. is one of the few countries that taxes the foreign wages of its citizens who work abroad. In most cases these aren’t wealthy people, they’re usually people holding dual citizenships who haven’t lived in the U.S. for years and are giving up their useless U.S. citizenship so they don’t have to pay taxes twice, to two countries, on one paycheck.

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